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the thing with NixOS is there's really no right or wrong way to configure your system. I know a guy that just straight up has a single configuration file and then just uses comma for everything. like practically nothing is installed. when he uses firefox its ", firefox" in a terminal. he likes it.

they do. desperately. it's been stated for awhile now.

doubt it. better off just setting up channels in libera chat on IRC and doin voice via teamspeak/mumble like we used to do it back in the day.

shit, someone needs to bring back ICQ.

going the Dendtritic Approach.

I recently changed my nixos configs to this approach. Takes a bit to remember where I put everything and what modules things are in but in the long term it makes things easier to manage. Also makes things easier if I need to turn modules on or off for whatever reason.

That being said does take a bit of work to get everything set up but in the long run it's worth it.

early internet "culture" to a younger person. They didn't get it.

In today's online world you openly post your photo online, where you're from, what you do, etc and anyone can see it. I had to explain to them that back then (late 90s/early 00s) posting your photo or real name online was a no-no. it was actively discouraged. But then in turn because of the way you primarily communicated with people online either via IRC, forums, ICQ, AOL IM, etc you kinda had a closer relationship with these people even if you didn't know what they looked like or what their names were.

Also the fact that in most cases a lot of people simply couldn't put their photos online either because they didn't have access to a scanner or a digital camera. I told them that one of my best friends online that I would talk to daily I still to this day have no idea what they looked like.

In Canada the government was providing something like close to $3000 per person during the pandemic if they had lost their job or were unable to work due to covid on the condition you pay it back. many people ripped off the program, many people didn't pay it back, government has kinda been mute on the whole thing since then. Guy I knew got it twice and could argue he didn't need it (he was a POS). never paid it back, didn't hear a peep from the government and still hasn't. continues to pay his taxes annnnnnd nothing, no one has ever come calling to collect.

Another thing is during the pandemic we were putting homeless individuals in hotel rooms for months on end. we paid for it. we "suddenly" were able to find them housing. People were working from home remember that? nothing collapsed, companies continued doing well. Then suddenly the pandemic ends and now for whatever reason we no longer have housing for the homeless, we can no longer put them in those hotel rooms, and we're forcing people to return to work. We no longer have money for anything?

it's not that we didn't learn anything, the people sure as fuck did learn something, It's just that there's more money to be made by the powers that be going back to the "old ways".

EVE Online. still after all these years (23) it's still a beautiful game that I god damn am still addicted to.

what do Kid Rock and the Homeless have in common? both are "banned" in California.

It's not so much about being "smart" to figure it out, it's more like it needs to "click" with you. At first you'll think it's stupid, you'll think it's a tedious way to do things and configure your system. Then you'll do something and it'll suddenly be like "oooooh I get it now, oh man that's awesome!". That's NixOS.

It's not a distro I recommend to people, it's one you just have to play around with yourself to see if you like it or not. But I will say I've found that the majority of people who do switch to it, it's the last distro they use. Like I'll spend a week on something else every few months to try it but I always go back to NixOS now. I just can't use any other distro long term anymore.

nah I find it boring now and it turns into a mess very quickly. only reason I was on Arch is cause i needed a "vacation" from NixOS to get a project done. project is done so went back to NixOS.

just did this lastnight, went from Arch back to NixOS. was on Arch for like all of a week.